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A really bad idea.

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Tue Nov 19 17:45:06 EST 2002 
John Hunter wrote:

> The one feature I'm unhappy with in python mode is text wrapping
> 
> If you have
	...
> and execute fill-paragraph in the help string, it returns
> 
>   class counting_dict(dict): """A specialized dictionary for counting.
>       This help string goes on and on and on""" def __call__(self,
>       key):
>       key = key.strip() self[ key ] = self.get( key , 0 ) + 1

Indeed, this is the only fault I have with python-mode as well.  It
would be nicer if reformatting strings and constants were more clever
about context.

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